PSYCO282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Classical Conditioning, Retting, Right Angle
19 Mar 2016
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No t e b o o k: behavior mod. Antecedents: stimuli or events that precede a target behavior. Overt antecedents: antecedents that are directly observable with your senses. Covert antecedents: antecedents that are internal events and not open to observation. Immediate antecedents: antecedents that occur right before or overlap with a behavior. Distant antecedents: stimuli that precede the behavior by a long time and may affect behavior for a long time. In 2001, van houten and retting modified driving behavior by installing an led display with moving eyes onto a stop sign. Right angle conflicts decreased from 4 to 1. 4. Stimulus control: the outcome of stimulus discrimination training. A particular behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of a particular discriminative stimulus because it has been reinforced only when that stimulus had been present. The extent to which an antecedent stimulus can influence the performance of a specific behavior.
